Good Bye Self Help

My forties so far have been just a little bumpy. There have been lots of great things happen and lots of challenges. Sometimes I long for my youth when there was an innocence and a sense of excitement about my future. Life has shifted that. I do appreciate being more socially conscious than I was in my twenties. With the start of my forties I started examining my life more closely. The things that were working, the things that weren't and what I wanted to change. I turned to ready a lot of self-help books. I have read more to many and they kept reshaping my thinking until I wasn't sure what I was thinking anymore. I kept telling myself how I should feel because I had read it. Two weeks ago I started a "Yoga Conscious Movement" class that ran for 9 weeks. Part of the course was to read Lousie Hay's "You Can Heal Yourself". I have read the first two chapters. I have now decided to throw out all my self-help books. As long as you are reading self-help books your mind is telling you that there is something wrong with you or something that needs to be fixed. I have decided that I am fine. I am a product of all my experiences and I am impacted by world events that go on around me. I make mistakes and I learn from them. I change and grow daily. I am optimistic about the future. I am fine. Reading for pleasure sounds like so much more fun.